gone like the yellow stork

gone like the yellow stork

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is y ǎ or ú Hu á NGH è, which originally refers to the legendary immortal flying away on a yellow crane and never coming back; now it refers to missing or missing. From Shuyi Ji.

Notes on Idioms

Yao: no shadow and no sound; Yellow Crane: the crane that the fairy rides in legend.

The origin of Idioms

In Shuyi Ji written by Liang renfang of the Southern Dynasty, "Xun Xun, resting on the Yellow Crane Tower in the summer of the Yangtze River, looked at the southwest and saw that something floated down from Yunhan. He was also a guest of crane. When the guests and the hosts quit, the crane leaps into the air and the smoke goes out. "

Idiom usage

The whereabouts are unknown. example the poem "Yellow Crane Tower" by Cui Hao of Tang Dynasty: "once the yellow crane is gone, it will never return, and the white clouds will be empty for thousands of years." Did the director arrive yesterday "It's still like a yellow crane." Lu Xun's wandering brothers

Idiom story

It is said that Xun GUI, a scholar, visited Wuchang and went to the Yellow Crane Tower to have a rest. He was dazed to see a man floating down. He rode a crane and landed on the Yellow Crane Tower. He was very elegant. They talked about wine and poetry very speculatively. After a while, he was drunk. The man stepped on the Yellow Crane, which fluttered its wings and flew to the sky.